2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:48:13 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Sustainable remediation at Travis Air Force Base, California
 
Taking energy conservation and environmental cleanup to the next level

Commentary by Mark Smith, 60th Civil Engineering Squadron
Air Force Link
October 17, 2008

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Over the last 25 years, the Air Force has devoted a lot of effort and resources to clean up soil and groundwater contamination from past industrial activities. Although the Environmental Protection Agency has overseen and supported this cleanup work and other cleanup projects across the country, it has recently become concerned with the amount of energy consumed and pollution created to carry out cleanup work.

As a response to this concern, the EPA has developed the concept of sustainable remediation. Sustainable remediation means that one part of the environment is cleaned up without dirtying up another part of the environment. An example is a treatment plant that is powered by an energy source that does not create green house gases. Two key objectives of sustainable remediation are to reduce energy consumption and to minimize or eliminate carbon dioxide emissions to the air.

Travis Air Force Base has been on the forefront of sustainable remediation when it began in 2005 to install solar-powered pumps to parts of the base where electricity was not readily available. Solar power is plentiful, cheap and generates no greenhouse gases.


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For the entire commentary, see
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123119880

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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